Philip Wadler

The Professor of Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh and Senior Research Fellow at IOHK. He is an ACM Fellow, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and editor-in-chief of Proceedings of the ACM for Programming Languages. He contributed to the designs of Haskell, Java, and XQuery, and is a co-author of Introduction to Functional Programming, XQuery from the Experts, and Generics and Collections in Java. He has delivered invited talks in locations ranging from Aizu to Zurich.

Saša Jurić

Saša is a software developer at Aircloak, a startup developing a solution for plug-and-play privacy compliance. He has many years of experience building server systems as well as desktop applications using various languages and technologies. For the past eight years, his focus has been on building back-end systems using Elixir and Erlang. He is the author of “Elixir in Action”, and occasional blogger at theerlangelist.com.

Ju Liu

Ju was born in China, moved to Italy as a kid, grew up eating pasta, and started messing around with computers. He now lives in London and works for NoRedInk. He loves to solve hard problems and build amazing products. When he’s not doing that, he’s probably rock climbing.

Alfonso Garcia-Caro

A linguist by heart, and a programmer by choice, Alfonso has brought his passion for natural languages to the computing world. He is the creator of Fable, a popular F# to JS compiler, and coauthor of the book "Mastering F#." He currently works as a freelancer specialized in Azure-based cloud and web applications using F# and Fable for high productive and reliable software development.

Mateusz Zatorski

Matt, a software engineer currently working at Callstack’s R&D, exploring ways how ReasonML and other emerging technologies can help with application development. In his free time, he plays beach volleyball.

Markéta Adamová

Though Markéta originally wanted to be a mathematician, she took a programming job after college and soon discover her passion for functional programming. Markéta is a co-organizer of Prague Lambda Meetup and is actively involved in introducing Clojure to the wider community. Currently, she works as a Clojure developer at NomNom Insights, a London based startup.

Over the last few years, she has enjoyed travelling and living in different parts of Europe. Right now she is based in Prague, taking a few months off to spend time with her newborn son.

Wojciech Gawroński

Software Engineering Consultant by heart and soul. Co-founder of Pattern Match (https://pattern-match.com). He believes that IT should serve the domain and business. Strong advocate of Functional Programming, Serverless, DevOps, and Cloud Computing. After hours he is a meet-ups organizer, bookworm, and music geek. Blogger and co-organizer of Functional Miners meet-up in Silesia (about distributed systems, programming language theory and functional programming in general).